English Learning

The line graph compared to the consumption of Pizza, Fish and chips, Hamburgers with Australian teenagers between 1975 and 2000.

It is clear that the consumption of fish and chips noticeably declined, whereas the amount of Hamburgers and Pizza that were eaten increased over the period shown.

In 1975, the number of times Australian teenagers ate fish and chips was highest, being eaten 100 times a year. While the figures for Hamburgers and Pizza were lower, approximately 10 times and 5 times respectively a year. However, apart from a brief rise again from 1980 to 1985, the consumption of fish and chips gradually declined over 25 year timescale to finish at just under 40 times per year.

In sharp contrast to this, teenagers ate the others two fast foods at much higher levels. Pizza consumption increased gradually until it overtook that of fish and chips in 1990. It then leveled off from 1995 to 2000. The consumption of hamburgers was highest, increasing sharply from 1970’s to 1980’s. The number of times teenagers consumed hamburgers exceed that of fish and chips in 1985. It finished at the same level that fish and chips began, with consumption at 100 times per year.

Ex: I remembered that he popped the question while we were eating ice cream.

To see eye to eye: To Agree on a subject, totally agree – Ex: My father and I see eye to eye on most things

To settle down: To give up the single life and start a family – Ex: He has never thought about to get married with someone. But everything changed after he met Marry, he love her at first sight. So, he decided to settle down.

To strike up a relationship: Begin a relationship – Ex: She struck a relationship with an artist after she arrived in Paris

To tie the knot: Get married – Ex: She is planing to tie the knot with her German boyfriend next June

To be well matched: to be similar – Ex: My sister and I are similar about many things in life so we are well-matched.

To work at a relationship: to try to maintain a positive relationship with someone Ex: I actually don’t like John but i still work at a relationship.

Who you communicated with and explain why you used a foreign language to communicate on this occasion.

Answer:

Used vocabularies:

The best of my recollection: (expression) If i remember correctly. Example: I was not present at that meeting, to the best of my recollection.

Hanging out (phrase verb): Spending a lot of time at a particular place but doing no special activity. Ex: My friends and I enjoy hanging out at our local coffee shop, just chatting and enjoying a coffee.

Came up to (phrasal verb) Approached. Example: My manager came up to me and shook my hand

Catch everything: (Expression) hear or understand everything that he said. Ex: At the train station, it was too noisy for me to hear all the information clearly, and i was unable to catch everything.

Body language: (Noun) The way that you show what you feel or think by moving your body. Example: Sometimes, our teacher uses body language, not words, to help to communicate an idea.

Headed for: (phrasal verb) Moved in a particular direction. Ex: After the show finished, everyone headed for the exits.

Have a good command of: (expression) Have a good knowledge of something. Example: People apply this job must have a good command of English, in order to communicate with our American customers.

2. The sample answer:

I have been learning English for a long time but i haven’t had many chances to practice English speaking with native speakers. To the best of my recollection that the first i used English to foreigner was on New Year Eve three years old ago.

At that time, I was hanging out with my friends on Nguyen Hue street. Suddenly, a foreigner came up to me and asked for directions to a supermarket. To be honestly, he spoke too quickly for me to catch everything but after he repeated his words, i finally understood and showed him the way to the nearest supermarket. I used body language a lot to explain the direction to him. Since, i didn’t speak English well then. After that, he said “Thank you” to me and headed for the supermarket.

I realize that English plays an important role in our life. Despite the fact that we don’t live in English speaking countries but it is spoken globally and it’s becoming dominant language. Therefore, I have been trying to practice English daily so that i can have a good command of this language, and i can talk confidently with foreigners, whatever the topic of conversation.

Enormous (i nố z mous) waterfall: Canada for me is a place that starts somewhere on the other side of that enormous waterfall.

A tunnel (tơ nồ) in the rock behind the water. The place is also popular with lovers.

The spot also attracts crazy people who want to throw themselves over the edge. These days it’s not bad if you like casinos. The latest one to open is called Fallsview casino, which, they say, is more luxurious (lấc zơ ri ơts) and sophisticated (səˈfistiˌkātid) than the Casino Niagara.

1. The hero was interviewed by a psychotherapist (sai cồ thía.. rờ pis)

2. He was getting further and further into debt.

3. He would never be able to pay the money back

4. Does this film have anything to do with Canada?

5. Canada is enormous … you can never use it up

6. He doesn’t seem to care about his girlfriend.

7. The film starts at the end of the story, then it goes back to the beginning.

Well, I’m not a big fan of the tourist attraction that are full of hoards of tourist. I prefer going somewhere off the beaten track to avoid the crowd and explore new things.

Part 2: Describe a beautiful place you once visited. You should say

– When you went to this place?

– Where it was?

– Who you went with and why you liked it so much?

Last year, after a hard year at work, i decided to get away from it all by heading for Korea, my favorite tourist destination so far. I went there with 2 friends of mine. The accommodation that we chose was the hostel which was not as expensive as a hotel. The things that made me fall in love with Korea so deeply were those breathtaking views and picturesque falling leaves. That was really a holiday of a life time.

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1.Do you like holidays? Why / why not?

Yes, of course. I do love the holidays because this is the great chance for me to have a short break after working hard days.

2. Do you prefer to travel or stay at home during holiday periods? Why?

Actually, I would rather stay at home during the holiday periods because it is extremely stressful and uncomfortable to deal with full hordes of people, the crowd noise and expensive services at tourist destination.

3. What do most people do during their holidays in your country? Why?

Well, most of people often enjoy the holidays with their kids by going to the cinema or going to water-park and then having home-cooked food together.

4. When do you prefer to take your holidays? Why?

I really like to take my holiday by traveling to far-off destination in fall, because the weather is so cool in this season and i can get away from it all to go sightseeing, enjoy breaktaking views and pictureque falling leaves.

Vietnamese students often get high score in IELTS reading and listening test because they can learn these skills by themselves. Basically, students can take a bit time on those magazines below for improving reading skills without feeling bored. It is more interesting than IELTS books, right?

Well, please take a look on which magazines that increase quite well for your scores. Here is the list:

New York Time

Washington Post

The Guardian

BBC

VOA news

Telegraph

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IELTS test mostly takes a context and change a bit from these magazine post to be an IELTS reading exam. In order to get acquainted the reading exam, you can try to practice every day in 30 minutes. It is for sure the IELTS reading exam becomes easy as a piece of cake. Let’s do it from now and get a higher score.

Furthermore, practicing reading constantly helps examinee to enhance their writing skills also. While trying to understand the author expresses his mean in a post that you can gain how describe something or tell about things more effectively than usual. From good posts collection, you also copy and collect some great phrases to re-use in your writing. You certainly use what you learn and apply them in your own tasks then you can keep them in mind longer.

My writing skills are not really quite good now but I always believe I can improve it day by day. Although IELTS self-learning is the long journey which must require studier not only be much patient and calm but also having a good plan to do it. I usually find out and research how successful IELTS fighter did and do follow their way. However, I sometimes have to find the specific way for me because each person often has different way to approach something.

Next short time will be fighting day of me. Try my best and achieve the goals.